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CVE-2000-0963

Medium

Elevated severity or exploit probability.

CVSS base
7.2 HIGH
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
EPSS — probability of exploitation (30 days)
0.7%
51.1th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness / dates
Published 2000-12-19 · modified 2026-07-23

CVSS breakdown

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack VectorLLocal
Attack ComplexityLLow
AuthenticationNNone
ConfidentialityCComplete
IntegrityCComplete
AvailabilityCComplete

Timeline

Description

Buffer overflow in ncurses library allows local users to execute arbitrary commands via long environmental information such as TERM or TERMINFO_DIRS.

Affected

freebsd immunix invisible-island redhat

References

Official: NVD · CVE.org